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A woman testified Friday that she saw Lizzi Marriott's body in Seth Mazzaglia's apartment on the night of Marriott's death.

Mazzaglia is charged with first-degree murder in the October 2012 death of the 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student.

Roberta Gerkin is a tarot card reader who testified that Mazzaglia regarded her as his spiritual adviser. She said she was the woman who he and his girlfriend, Kat McDonough, called in the moments after Marriott died.

Gerkin said she went numb when she and her friend Paul walked into Mazzaglia's apartment on the night of Oct. 9. She said she saw a body on the floor next to the bed. She would later learn the body was Marriott's.

"The body itself was naked, with the exception of underpants," Gerkin said. "The head was covered in a grocery bag."

Gerkin was asked what was her first thought.

"We need to get these bags off," she said. "Could she be alive? Although in the back of my mind, I knew she was not."

Gerkin testified that after the bag was removed, she noticed a pale purple line around Marriott's throat. She said she remembers only Mazzaglia talking.

"There was a transition, certainly at the beginning of it," she said. "There was the, 'I've gone too far. I blacked out.'"

"It was framed like this was an accident, that something had gone horribly wrong," Gerkin said.

She said she also recalled Mazzaglia making a reference about disposing of the body.

"It gets to the point that Paul and I believe that we have convinced at least Seth that calling an ambulance, calling someone, is the best way moving forward," Gerkin said.

No one called an ambulance. Gerkin said it wasn't until two days later that she heard that Marriott was missing.

She later agreed to wear a recording device and meet with McDonough four times before the end of the year.

The defense asked for a mistrial Friday morning after hearing some of Gerkin's testimony that the defense said was hearsay. After a lengthy break, the judge declined to declare a mistrial and instead instructed jurors to ignore the testimony.

On Wednesday, the prosecution asked for a mistrial, and that request was also denied. Former prosecutor and current defense attorney David Ruoff, who is not working on this trial, said such requests are often made, but rarely granted.

"It's fairly common for defense attorneys to ask for a mistrial one, two, three times," he said. "Normally, mistrials are not granted. So lawyers really have to advocate if they believe the process has been tainted for the judge to grant a mistrial."

Testimony in the Mazzaglia trial is scheduled to resume Monday morning at 9 a.m.